pabs3

Born on May 04, 2018•55838 Karma

29 days ago

•on: BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL li...

They are likely pretty busy with their lawsuit against Vizio, which is going to trial in August and would set a very interesting precedent if won.

https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html

ndiddy•

29 days ago

I think the Vizio lawsuit will set a more narrow precedent than the SFC wants. The tentative ruling the judge in that case made in December (not binding, but represents the judge's current understanding of the case going into the trial) is that Vizio has a contractual obligation to provide the GPL source code for the TV the SFC bought because the TV has an offer to provide source code upon request buried in one of the menus. The tentative ruling doesn't cover what happens if a company doesn't offer to provide source code. In the future, a company that uses GPL code without a source code offer could argue that third-party GPL beneficiaries have no grounds to sue because there's no contract being violated, and this would take another lawsuit to resolve.

Tomte•

29 days ago

That was my impression, as well, but I recently met SFC people and they assured me that the judge is taking the third party beneficiary doctrine very seriously, it‘s not off the table. Funnily, because Vizio objected to the tentative ruling, it has little meaning now.

The trial in August will handle the TPB stuff, as well. It will be streamed, btw.

ndiddy•

29 days ago

Nice, I'm glad to hear that.

pabs3•

30 days ago

•on: The memory shortage is causing a repricing of cons...

The OpenMoko Freerunner only had 128MB RAM, it was able to run a Linux desktop of the time, Englightenment/E16. There were lots of apps for it too. IIRC the cut down QtMoko distro ran best though.

https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Neo_Freerunner https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Applications https://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/QtMoko

Before that Linux ran on the Zaurus too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Zaurus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenZaurus

pabs3•

30 days ago

•on: Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D...

Indeed, the Reproducible Builds community is working on fixing non-deterministic build output https://reproducible-builds.org/

pabs3•

30 days ago

•on: Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D...

Build reproducibility checks usually use bitwise comparison, not hash comparison.

The Reproducible Builds project also wrote diffoscope, which goes quite far with helping identify where differences occur and how to fix them.

https://reproducible-builds.org/ https://diffoscope.org/ https://try.diffoscope.org/

illiac786•

29 days ago

Let’s say, for the positive case, hash comparison is significantly faster.

pabs3•

29 days ago

I feel like that is quite unlikely. Both the hash and bitwise comparisons read both files in both cases. In the not-equal case the hash reads the entirety of both files, so its slower than a start-to-end bitwise comparison, which exits at the first not-equal bit. In the equal case, both read the entirety of both files. Various other bitwise strategies can be faster than start-to-end, rdfind for example checks the start of the file first, then the end, then the rest of the file.

illiac786•

29 days ago

I think we’re not talking about the same scenario. I’m talking about the case where at least one hash has already been calculated.

pabs3•

30 days ago

•on: Yearslong fight over users' right to tweak smart T...

That sounds like a GPLv2 violation:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-t...

pabs3•

31 days ago

•on: Google I/O 2026 had nothing to say and said it bad...

There were 5G towers being attacked during COVID, because of delusional conspiracy theories: